With all those parts stuffed into Apple's 10th anniversary gadget, this means Samsung can expect a tidy profit of around $110 (about £85 / AU$140) per iPhone X sold.

If Apple sells 130 million iPhone X units within the first 20 months, as Counterpoint believes it will, then Samsung will make roughly $14.3 billion (about £10.8 billion / AU$18.3 billion) from those sales.

Counterpoint claims that Samsung makes $202 (about £155 / AU$260) off of each Galaxy S8 it sells, and the firm expects 50 million units of the Android smartphone to move within its first 20 months.

All added up, that means Samsung will likely make $10 billion (about £7.5 billion / AU$12.8 billion) from its own devices. The iPhone X, the analysis claims, may bring in about $4 billion more.

Apple no doubt saw this coming, and it may be a major reason why the company was comparatively slow to adopt OLED displays. It may also be a reason for the iPhone X's comparatively high price at $999 / £999 / AU$1,579 to start.

Stuck together

So, why not just use another manufacturer? Well, look at those numbers. Apple typically sells a massive number of iPhones, and it needs a manufacturer that lives up to those kinds of demands within the desired time frame while still maintaining the quality Apple desires.

Few if any other manufacturers are in a position to meet those demands. As Korean news site ETNews reported last August, Samsung committed the entirety of its OLED display manufacturing line to displays for what would become known as the iPhone X, leaping in production from 15,000 displays per month to 105,000.

Apple has often tried to break out of this arrangement, but with mixed success. Beginning in 2014, Apple began using TSMC to make its A-series chips for its phones, but apparently the Taiwan-based company couldn't keep up. As AppleInsider reported last July, Apple switched back to Samsung for the iPhone X.